Evidence for Linkage Between Asthma/Atopy in Childhood and Chromosome 5q31-q33 in a Japanese Population

doi:10.1164/ajrccm.156.5.9702084

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Evidence for Linkage Between Asthma/Atopy in Childhood and Chromosome 5q31-q33 in a Japanese Population

1 Nov 1997

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Susceptibility to the development of asthma and other atopic diseases is known to be associated with genetic components, and several candidate genes have been reported to be linked to atopy in Caucasian populations. We conducted a study of linkage between asthma and markers on chromosomes 5q31-q33 and 11q13 in 68 Japanese families (306 members) by affected sib-pair analysis. Families for the linkage study were...

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